"Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy."

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Judy Blume

#Character Quotes

“Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?”
“It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.297, tredition
“If someone throws you the ball, you don't have to catch it.”

Source : Richard Carlson (1997). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff”, Hyperion
“Donâ€™t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves”
“To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.”
“I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.”
“God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.”
“The United States should.... avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize U.S. exporters without advancing U.S. national security or foreign policy interests.”

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